Ambrosine Allen's Compendium to the New World is an ever expanding series of intricate collages, meticulously created using layer upon layer of tiny paper cuttings. The subjects are landscapes, often epic in scope but with a detailed aesthetic that references 17th and 18th century engravings of a geographical nature. Each piece often takes several months to complete.

Simultaneously fantastical and real, beautiful yet troubling, the collages depict a world in turmoil, landscapes of altered ecosystems that are subject to bizarre natural phenomena. Ruins sit strewn amongst unfamiliar geology, the sea invades the land as the land shifts, the sky broods and terrifying storms roll in. Informed by the science, myths and history of humanity’s interaction with the environment, the series presents us with a ‘new world’, an alternative evolution that shadows our own but is violently shaped by the power and majesty of nature and the self destructive force of mankind.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
Solo, Millennium
2012
Solo Show, ROOM Artspace, London

EXHIBITIONS

2015
The Tragedy of Landcape, Antlers at Griffin Gallery, London

2014
All Visual Arts Collection, 1 Horse Guards Avenue, London

2013
Group Exhibition, All Visual Arts at 2 Omega Place, London
The Viewing Room, No.1 Marylebone, London

2012
Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Being, 33 Portland Place, London
Collaborators 3, ROOM Artspace, London
Compendium to the New World, ROOM Artspace, London
The Lie of the Land, ASC Gallery, London
Streatham Arts Festival. ASC London

2011
Through Hills and Valleys, Bristol Drawing School, Bristol

2010
An Academy of Investigations, Madame Lillie’s, London
Salon, Galerie Fur Zeichnung (Drawing Gallery), Berlin
2009
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstrum Kreuzberg, Berlin
The Drawing Factory, ASC London
Life in the City, WAW, London

2008
Subversive Correspondance, Willesden Green Gallery, London
The Drawing Factory, The Crypt, London

2007
Konsstnarhuset Video Weekend, Stockholm

2006
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London
The Ada Street Project, London
2005
The Hardest Thing to Draw is a Kiss, Wimbledon School of Art, London
Cannizaro Park Sculpture Train, London
Drawing on Collaboration, Centre for Drawing, London


ART FAIRS

2014
Art 14, All Visual Arts London

2011
Volta 7, ROOM Artspace, Basel

2010
Liste Art Fair, Basel


PRIZES AND AWARDS

2012
Generation Next, Quintessentially Magazine

2007
UDP Residency Award, in Association with 30 Thornhill Road, London

2005
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Finalist

2004
Prizewinner, The Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art

2003
Undergraduate Prizewinner, Northern Arts, Schools Prize


EDUCATION

2004 - 2005
MA Fine Art: Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art

2000 - 2003
BA Fine Art: Drawing, Lancaster University


RESIDENCIES AND PROJECTS

2014
Finding Your Identity project for Arts Emergency

2008 – 2010
Artists in Schools

2007
Residency, UDP Architects, London

2007
Graduate Advisor for Axis MAstars


PRESS AND EDITORIAL

2013
Flaunt Magazine, The Fabrication Issue

2012
YBA Spirit, Quintessentially Magazine

2012
Book Arts No.71

2011
W.I.R.E Ideas, Facts and Fictions

2007
World Making and Fictional Landscapes, Dialogue, axisweb.org


COLLECTIONS

All Visual Arts, London